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Coming up, Google's response to chat gPT.

What we know about the conversational AI search engine named Bard.

Plus Dell, the latest tech giant to announce layoffs which have now topped 67,000 industry

wide already in 2023 and we dive into the China spy balloon story

which puts the spotlight on Beijing's global surveillance push we'll get to all of

that this hour but first alphabet parent of Google shares briefly pairing

some of their gain a spike after headlines that the company is releasing its rival

to chat gPT called Bard that's to early testers.

Bloemberg's Julia Love joins us now with those details.

Julia, what do we actually know about Bard?

Yes, so Bard is, we've all heard a lot of buzz about Chat GPT, the chat Bob that has taken the internet. is a

we've all heard a lot of buzz about chat gp t the chat bot that has taken the internet by storm

and Bard is Google's answer to that product.

It's a conversational AI service that users will also be able to turn to for simple queries such as

planning a birthday party or buying a gift for a friend.

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